Thank You, Evan Karp
18 December 2009 – 3:59 pmYesterday, once of my buddies in Brazil called me on Skype. In the catching-up phase of the conversation, he commented on much he'd enjoyed the videos of my recent readings from Litquake 2009 and the inaugural East Bay on the Brain event on October 25. The thing is, I didn't take those videos. True, I did videotape those readings, but they came out poorly. (You'd think I'd have enough sense not to block my own face from my own camera with my own clipboard!) Evan Karp shot both videos and featured them in his sfexaminer.com blog. He covers lots of events and seems to videotape most of them. And I could be wrong, but it seems like no one had thought to do that before. The Bay Area is an ongoing literary renaissance that keeps, well, renaissancing every few years, from the Beats in the Fifties to the spoken word movement in the ...